An Imagined Chat Between Donald Trump and Pope Francis

DT: The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

PF: A very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system.

DT: It’s freezing and snowing in New York—we need global warming!

PF: If present trends continue, this century may well witness extraordinary climate change and an unprecedented destruction of ecosystems, with serious consequences for all of us. A rise in the sea level, for example, can create extremely serious situations, if we consider that a quarter of the world’s population lives on the coast or nearby, and that the majority of our megacities are situated in coastal areas

DT: This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps, and our GW scientists are stuck in ice.

PF: The exploitation of the planet has already exceeded acceptable limits and we still have not solved the problem of poverty.

DT: Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.

PF: In a world where there is so much wealth, so many resources to feed everyone, it is unfathomable that there are so many hungry children, that there are so many children without an education, so many poor persons. Poverty today is a cry.

DT: They [Mexico] are sending people who have lots of problems. They bring in drugs, they bring in crime, they’re rapists. I assume some are good people. It’s got to stop, and it’s got to stop fast.

PF: Many people forced to emigrate suffer, and often, die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be the subject of racist and xenophobic attitudes.

DT: I don’t have a racist bone in my body.

PF: Those who seek to deny a home to the migrant, to the African and the Muslim, risk their membership in the church. Satan himself is a metaphor or a personification, for the collective evils of mankind. Today, these evils manifest foremost as racism, intolerance, religious persecution and bigotries of all kinds.